عصمت

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic عِصْمَة‎ (ʕiṣma).

Proper noun

عصمت • (İsmet)

a male given name from Arabic, notably belonging to Ismet Inonu, second president of Turkey.

Descendants

Turkish: İsmet
→ Albanian: Ismet

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic عِصْمَة‎ (ʕiṣma).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /isˈmat/

(Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /ɪsˈmat/

(Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /esˈmæt/

(Tajik) IPA^(key): /isˈmat/

Noun

Iranian Persian	عصمت
Dari	عصمت
Tajik	исмат (ismat)

عصمت • ('esmat)

chastity; purity
‏‎ ― zan bâ 'esmat ― chaste woman
- late 14th century, Xāja Shams-ud-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, “اگر آن ترک شیرازی به دست آرد دل ما را‎ (Shirazi Turk)”, in دیوان حافظ‎ [Divān of Ḥāfeẓ]:
  ‏من از آن حسن روزافزون که یوسف داشت دانستم
  که عشق از پرده عصمت برون آرد زلیخا را‎
  man az ân hosn-e ruz-afzun ke yusof dâšt dânestam
  ke 'ešq az parde-ye 'esmat borun ârad zoleyxâ-râ
  I have learnt, from that daily-increasing beauty that Joseph had, that Love will bring Zoleykha out from behind the curtain of modesty.
(Islam) infallibility; protection from sin (e.g. of the Shi'a imams)

Derived terms

بی‌عصمت‎ (bi-esmat, “unchaste”)
عصمتی‎ (esmati, “relating to chastity”)
عصمت‌پناه‎ (esmat-panâh, “chaste woman”, literally “sanctuary of chastity”)

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